I was initially puzzled by Carolyn's comments (
I was reminded of Shade's notations to himself within the
poem, which are then echoed in Kinbote's publishing notes to the
printer...), but from what she explained off-line I understood she
meant JS's and CK's marginal commentaries addressed to a publisher or
scribbled in rejected index-cards. She was not discussing PF's commentaries
by Kinbote.
Perhaps the forthcoming edition of Frost's
notebooks, transcribed and annotated by Faggen, reveals Frost's
unpublished "notes for further use" through a non-Kinbotean implementation
["Faggen decided not only to transcribe, but also annotate,
the notebooks. This involved developing a complex cross-referencing system that
Faggen describes as “somewhat more of an interpretive guide than a concordance,
but less than an index of ideas or, as they used to call it at the University of
Chicago, a ‘Syntopicon.’” ( "Taking Frost at his Word", Kate Shuster)]
.Nabokov's own were not kept in
notebooks,neither were Shade's. And yet, in a typical "involutive" ( or should
they be described as "involutional"?) tactic, many were then quoted in
Strong Opinions or incorporated to the poem Pale Fire.
Carolyn Kunin's association bt.
Frost's ideas, contained in his notebook, and JS's and
Kinbote's instructions to a publisher, still eludes
me.